The tragedy of Armero was a natural disaster product of the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano on Wednesday, November 13, 1985, affecting the Colombian departments of Caldas and Tolima. After sixty-nine years of inactivity, the eruption took by surprise to nearby villages, even though the government had received warnings from multiple volcanological agencies since the appearance of the first signs of volcanic activity in September 1985. Wikipedia

A fleeting moment of light and quick rising fog over the stream, this scene lasted only a few seconds. Afterwards, adding a low opacity flypaper texture and a little masking to create a sense of depth.

He studied acting at university (in the same class of Romanian actors Constantin Codrescu and Vlad Radescu). He started photography from a young age, following his father's love for images and photography. His photos were published in Vogue Japan, Harrods, Elle, Beau Monde, GQ, and Harper's Bazaar. He received the award of 'Best Romanian Fashion Photographer in 2008' by Beau Monde magazine, part of SANOMA HEARST.

In 1998 Clenci established Allure Management, a model management company based in Bucharest, Romania.

Born in Odessa, in 1921, as Yuri Kutschuk, his family emigrated to Milan, Italy and then to Berlin, Germany in 1923. While in Berlin, Yuri's father, George Kutschuk sold photographs to European publications. Yuri's Aunt, Cecile Kutschuk, worked at the Associated Press, with Wilson Hicks, who later became Executive Editor in charge of photography for Life.

In 1936, after Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the family fled back to Italy, where they then had to flee from Benito Mussolini's regime to Bombay, India. In Bombay they lived in the Outram Private Hotel owned by his uncle, George Azrilenko. In 1939, the family emigrated to Seattle from Japan on the "Hiye Mare." Once in the U.S. his name was anglicized to Jerry Cooke. Cecile Kutschuk, who had studied photojournalism at the Rhine University, emigrated to the United States in 1935, and started a photo agency in New York City called Pix Publishing. She gave Jerry his first camera, a Rolleiflex. Cecile Kutschuk put him to work in the Pix darkroom, where he was assistant to photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, George Karger, and others. In 1945, on V-J Day in Times Square, Jerry Cooke was with Eisenstaedt when he photographed the iconic image of the nurse and sailor kissing.

Cooke's career in photojournalism began working for newspapers and magazines, including Life Magazine, Collier's, Ladies Home Journal, and others.

A founding member of the American Society of Media Photographers, Cooke served as president from 1951- 1952.

Cooke returned to Russia in the summer of 1957 to cover Russia and Physical Fitness for Sports Illustrated. He was one of the first westerners permitted to photograph in post-Stalin Russia. Cooke spoke several languages, visited five continents and well over a hundred countries.

Jaime "Jaiguer"Guerrero Castrillon, Colombian photographer born in 1939 in Abriaquí, Antioquia, artistically known as "Jaiguer".

He studied at the Ateneo Antioqueño and the University of Antioquía, before becoming a professional soccer player at Deportivo Independiente in Medellín. After he got married, he left soccer and became a photographer.

He began his photographic career as a lab assistant with an uncle, and learned himself to photograph while roaming the streets of Medellín. In 1959, he became a photographer at the national newspaper El Correo, and later went to photograph as a freelancer for El Colombiano, Vea Deportes magazine and the Periódico de Bogotá, among others. In the 1970s, Jaiguer worked for Colombia's 24th President Alfonso López Michelsen.

Later, Jaiguer moved to Panama where he became the personal photographer of General Omar Torrijos, the military leader of Panama until his death in 1981, and General Manuel Noriega. After the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989, Jaiguer had to burn large parts of his photographic archive to avoid reprisals.

Tony Sweet, American photographer, known for his widely published nature photography. He is also a jazz musician, workshop instructor, and author.

He worked as a professional jazz drummer for 20 years, playing with such jazz greats as Sonny Stitt, Joe Henderson, Tal Farlow, Cal Collins, Johnny Coles, et al. He started working in photography during that period photographing inside jazz clubs. Tony later changed careers and focused on nature photography. He is now best known for his fine art nature and floral images. He uses digital technology to produce fine art ink-jet (giclee) prints. His photographs are published worldwide.

Tony conducts photography workshops throughout the continental United States and Canada. Tony maintains an active speaking schedule on the subjects of nature photography and marketing, lecturing at professional photography organizations, universities, seminars, and workshops in the U.S. and Canada.

Enrique Meneses Miniaty, Spanish journalist, writer and photographer born in Madrid in 1929.

He spent part of his childhood in Paris, where he lived the German occupation during World War II. At the end of the war he moved with his family to Portugal.

He studied law at the Universities of Salamanca and Madrid. He studied journalism, although he had already published his first story in 1947 (17 years), on death of Manolete. He created the Universal Press agency, which was closed a year after birth for having published articles about Jesus Galíndez, exiled Basque in New York.

In 1954 he moved to Egypt where he worked in the local press. In 1956 he crossed Africa from Cairo to Cape Town. Back to Cairo in 1956, he covered the war of the Suez Canal for Paris Match and Information.

In 1958 he traveled to Cuba, becoming the first reporter living during four months, with the Cuban revolutionaries in Sierra Maestra. There he met Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Some months before his departure from the island after having spent a week as a prisoner of Batista's police, managed to send his report on the Cuban revolution to the magazine Paris Match. That article caused a sensation worldwide.

He was a correspondent in India and in the Middle East for seven years. In 1962 he went to New York where remained as freelance until November 1963, when President Kennedy was assassinated.

In Spanish Television he directed the shows "A toda Plana" and "Los Reporteros". He led the Spanish edition of Lui and in 1976 became director of the Spanish edition of Playboy.

Anna Gaskell, American art photographer from Des Moines, Iowa, born in 1969.

She is best known for her photographic series that she calls "elliptical narratives" which are similar to the works produced by Cindy Sherman. Like Sherman, Gaskell's works are influenced by film and painting, rather than the typical conventions of photography. She lives and works in New York.

Gaskell's mother was an evangelical Christian who brought Anna and her brother along on "wild pilgrimages throughout the Midwest," where they would witness miracles being performed, acts of healing, people speaking in tongues, and other Charismatic Christian practices. She claims that she does not remember anything strange about these acts, "but more a feeling of excitement and a security in the faith that [she] felt from everyone there." Gaskell says that her work revolves around a similar idea of faith, believing the possibility of the impossible and suspension of disbelief.

Gaskell stages all of her scenes, using the style of "narrative photography," wherein each scene exists only to be photographed. Gaskell pioneers a new discourse of contemporary photography where within each of her series, the narrative of her photographs is disrupted, "its fragments functioning like film stills excised from their context but suggesting a missing whole." There are gaps of space and time left between each photograph, evoking a "vivid and dreamlike world."

Leonard Freed, American documentary photojournalist and longtime Magnum member born in 1929 in New York.

He had wanted to be a painter, but began taking photographs in the Netherlands and discovered a new passion. He traveled in Europe and Africa before returning to the United States where he attended the New School and studied with Alexey Brodovitch, the art director of Harper's Bazaar. In 1958 he moved to Amsterdam to photograph its Jewish community. Through the 1960s he continued to work as a freelance photojournalist, traveling widely. He documented such events and subjects as the Civil Rights movement in America (1964–65), the Yom Kippur War in 1973, and the New York City police department (1972–79). His career blossomed during the American civil rights movement, when he traveled the country with Martin Luther King, Jr. in his celebrated march across the US from Alabama to Washington. This journey gave him the opportunity to produce his 1968 book, Black in White America, which brought considerable attention. His work on New York City law enforcement also led to a book, Police Work which was published in 1980.

Early in Freed's career, Edward Steichen purchased three photographs from Freed for the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. In 1967, Cornell Capa selected Freed as one of five photographers to participate in his "Concerned Photography" exhibition. Freed joined Magnum Photos in 1972. Publications to which Freed contributed over the years included Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Fortune, Libération, Life, Look, Paris-Match, Stern, and The Sunday Times Magazine of London.

In later years, Freed continued shooting photographs in Italy, Turkey, Germany, Lebanon and the U.S. He also shot four films for Japanese, Dutch and Belgian television.

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